{"id":886,"date":"2025-10-02T03:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wopereis-marco\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:58:31","slug":"wopereis-marco","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/wopereis-marco\/","title":{"rendered":"Wopereis Marco"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarco Wopereis<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n    <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Wopereis Marco\">\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_pinit\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n    <!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/wopereis-marco\/368832-1-eng-gb\/wopereis-marco_author.jpg\" alt=\"Wopereis Marco\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrganisation:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tAfricaRice<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWebsite:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/africarice.org\/\">http:\/\/africarice.org<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Deputy Director General and Director of Research for Development at AfricaRice. PhD in tropical agronomy, 1993, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His specialisation is in management of international agricultural research, tropical agronomy and natural resources management (NRM), soil fertility and nutrient management, systems analysis and simulation modeling, participatory learning and action research.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/towards-a-food-secure-world\/commitments-after-the-rice-crisis-pay-off\/368845-1-eng-gb\/commitments-after-the-rice-crisis-pay-off_column.jpg\" alt=\"Commitments after the 'rice crisis' pay off \"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">Commitments after the &#8216;rice crisis&#8217; pay off <\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/wopereis-marco\/\">Marco Wopereis<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t21 March 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tAfter 2007 African governments started ambitious programs to boost their rice production capacity. Now research shows that thanks to their commitment average rice yield in SSA jumped by about 30% from 2007 to 2012.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"icons\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/themes\/food-security\/\" title=\"Food Security\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/themes\/food-security\/88518-5-eng-gb\/food-security_tiny_icon.png\" alt=\"Food Security\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigator\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Wopereis Organisation: AfricaRice Website: http:\/\/africarice.org Deputy Director General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-886","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wopereis Marco \/ Authors - The Broker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Deputy Director General and Director of Research for Development at AfricaRice.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/wopereis-marco\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wopereis Marco \/ Authors - The Broker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Deputy Director General and Director of Research for Development at AfricaRice.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/wopereis-marco\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Homepage - Broker Online\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Wopereis Marco \/ Authors - The Broker","description":"Deputy Director General and Director of Research for Development at AfricaRice.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/wopereis-marco\/","og_type":"article","og_title":"Wopereis Marco \/ Authors - The Broker","og_description":"Deputy Director General and Director of Research for Development at AfricaRice.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/wopereis-marco\/","og_site_name":"Homepage - Broker Online","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}